Start your week off right with a federal holiday and some free music. Whether its residency shows (Mystery Skulls at Bootleg, A House for Lions at Echoplex, The Mowgli's at The Satellite) or It's A School Night with K. Flay, Gavin Turek and Beach Party - there should be something sonically appealing for no cost tonight. If you want to laugh though - you may have to shell out some pounds to catch Russell Brand at Largo. A complete list of Los Angeles' entertainment options tonight are below the videos...
Mystery Skulls,
White Blush, Moonchild, Realboy @ Bootleg Bar (FREE)
Wires In The Walls,
Escalator Hill, George Glass, Michael Davis with Lions, The Picture and the
Frame @ Silverlake Lounge (FREE)
Taylor Dexter, Kyle Crane, Blake Straus Trio @ Lot 1 Café
Kan Wakan, VUM,
Evan Slamka @ The Echo
A House for Lions,
Wake Up Lucid, Rainbow Jackson, Daniel Ahearn & The Jones @ The
Echoplex
The Mowgli’s,
Torches, Act As If, Ghost Beach, DJ Henri @ The Satellite (FREE)
Sarah Grace, Daniel Sobrino @ The Mint
UUVVWWZ, Dark Furs, Town In The City @ The Central SAPC
Johnny Stachela & Duane Betts @ Harvelle’s
Reverend Freakchild, Rogue Mechanica @ TRiP
Brett Vogel @ Saint Rocke (6 PM)
Holychild, Hotel Cinema, This Time With Feeling @ Detroit
Bar (FREE)
Billy Kernkamp and the Brides, Flying Sparks Long Black
Shadows @ Constellation Room
DJ Hype @ The Observatory
Cockney Rejects, Youth Brigade, Union 13, Warlords @ El Rey
Theatre
K. Flay, Gavin Turek,
Beach Party, Mika Ben-Yami, O-Be1, Ando @ Bardot – It’s a School Night
Jessica Ash’s Paradium, Hey You!, The Cartunes @ Key Club
28 North, Bartholomew, 2ndwheel, The Bleecker Street
Company, Naked Walrus @ The Viper Room
Russell Brand @ Largo
Moment Trigger, Schwarz, Gnarbaby, Dead Wolf Black @
Pehrspace
Steel Panther @ House of Blues – Sunset Strip
Jason Joseph & The Spectacular, Josh Karjcik, Somebody’s
Darling, Mike Elizondo & Lindsey Ray @ The Hotel Café
Gliss, Touche, Baron Von Luxxury, Tic Tic Boom! @ Los Globos
PAX217, Ruslan and The Breax Band, Number One Gun,
Propoganda @ House of Blues - Anaheim
On this interesting date (10/11/12) – there are a few line
ups with a one, two, three punch that may make your music taste buds
salivate. AWOLNATION, Imagine Dragons
and Zeale at Club Nokia has to be the tastiest bill and its only made sweeter
by the fact that they are giving away a free EP at http://awolnationmusic.com/downloads/
K. Flay, Michna and Air Dubai should deliver for the hip-hop
set, while Jhameel, Tic Tic Boom! and Trapdoor Special should hopefully do the
same over at Saint Rocke for South Bay residents that dig emerging indie artists.
Spectacular musicianship will undoubtedly be on display at
Coach House where Steve Kimcok, Bernie Worrell, Wally Ingram and Andy Hess take
stage. The same can likely be said for
the interesting Dudamel Conducts Where The Wild Things Are at Walt Disney
Concert Hall – which begins its first of four consecutive nights.
Other notable acts include Girl Talk with Dev at The Observatory, Dr. John at The Valley Performing Arts Center and Egyptian Lover at New Wave Bar. Find a full list of LA's shows tonight below
Harlow Gold @ Harvelle’s
FD and The Club Pacific Band, Mollusk Sound + Special Guests
@ Del Monte Speakeasy
Former Stanford student and tom-boy k.flay brings her dirty lyrics and sneakerhead steeze to the left coast next week before heading east for Bonnaroo and more. To celebrate her trip South, which includes a stop at The Constellation Room in Santa Ana and The Central SAPC in Santa Monica, we're paying homage in a blog post (and dishing out some free tickets to The Central show....)
If you don't know much about Kristine Flaherty - she's originally from Illinois and got the rap bug after moving to C-A to attend Stanford. She claims her latest offering, Eyes Shut, is a response to 20-something apathy and an introspective nature. With a colorful experience (she's toured the country as a solo white female rapper, her father died at age 14, etc.) - there is probably a lot of truth in her lyrics too. You can witness first hand for yourself in SoCal this coming week or at Bonnaroo, where she drops 3 performances including That Tent at 4:15 pm on Thursday, and then later that night at The Silent Disco and again on Friday at the Silent Disco around 4 pm.
Don't miss your chance to catch this little spark plug before she releases a full length and blows up! If you want a chance at winning tickets - send us a picture of a dirty street name similar to this k.flay photo. Submissions should be sent to contest@supergoodmusic.com. Alternatively, you can tweet out @supergoodmusic @thecentralsapc and @kflay along with a hashtag of your most creative dirty word!
Download her mixtape - I Stopped Caring in '96 - here.
Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and wrote a blog about who to go see on the first day of OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL 2011.
Yes. I'm that excited that I'm quoting Beatles and not sleeping before I go. Returning a third day for the festival - the event brings legendary acts like Phish and The Original Meters into a festival environment that is also peppered with lesser known acts that, while they've been in the game, are still hoping to have careers that endure nearly as long as either one of the above.
I fully intend to indulge myself in those artists still seemingly hungry for growth. I'm not talking about the chart toppers that people might flock to, but the ones I wish were chart toppers - like K. Flay. She's got swag. I think she's talented (and intelligent). And she's down with real hip-hop. This video's got breakers, Converse and tap dancing - all which get props in my book. She plays at 12:45.
Or Toro Y Moi - the ambient chillwave masterchild of Chazwick Bundick responsible for a sexy remix of Tyler, The Creator's "French!" and releases a new EP (Freaking Out) in just over a month. Doing duty at two California festivals this weekend (Saturday at Pacific Festival in OC) - the San Francisco crowd is lucky to get him to get the party started at 3:50 at the Twin Peaks stage.
"Still Sound" is a more recent offering from the second album, Underneath The Pine. It was recently featured on an episode of Entourage, which probably propelled the visibility of the Bull and I into new places.
"Talamak" is from Toro Y Moi's first album - released on Carpark Records in 2010. Also a gem.
For those who want to see Foster The People and Toro Y Moi - they'll have a tough decision to make. I'm sticking with Toro, who has played less festivals than the People.
I'll be throwing my love for Los Angeles behind a different home grown act - the funk masters that are Orgone. I really hope Fanny Franklin is there rocking with them. She has a killer voice that crushes it over the Stewart Killen led rhythm section. They have a healthy library of originals (at least four albums) and also do killer covers of songs like "Ain't No Use" and - "Brothers On The Slide"
Orgone is one of those bands that doesn't have "official" music videos - just dirty nasty funky ass jams that make you want to get down live. Certainly will be much more of a throw down than MGMT - who still haven't earned back my respect from previous poor performances. If you dig our recommendations - please just trust me, and peep Orgone.
While I'd love to catch a little of Ellie Goulding or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or even Miguel Migs, I'm going to squat by Panhandle for The Limousines at 6:15.
I've actually never seen the recent Dangerbird Records signees and clever minds behind "Internet Killed The Video Star" - so I'll be losing my virginity so to speak.
Checking them out means missing out on most of Big Boi - who has been doing great all festival season. If you love Outkast, love to see black men in track suits or just want to get down with daddy fat sacks - check him out at Sutro Stage starting at 6:20 p.m.
It also means missing the beginning of Phish, who take stage at 6:30 p.m., and have also allegedly been having a great summer season. Here is a video of them performing Paul Simon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" at Hollywood Bowl on Monday for the first time. It takes a few minutes for it to get going - but it is kind of cool to watch a band that has toured for close to 30 years play a song they've never played before.
Stanford graduate and hipster hip-hopstress K. Flay makes her way into Los Angeles this evening, where she performs with wallpaper., The Dance Party (Hell Ya!) and Dude Royal.
Born in IlliNOISE - K. Flay began making music in her dorm room shortly after heading West. Now, with a lot of industry heat around the quite talented female artists, she's making music everywhere - from studios to apartments to the front seat of her car (wonder if she was making music with Amp on her car on the day of this photograph?).
You can peep some of her tracks through RCRDLBL.com or click this link - K.Flay - 2 Weak
K. Flay takes stage at 9:30 and may just steal the thunder of fellow rappers Dude Royal and wallpaper. Flay will be at home with Bay Area electro-hip-hop funkster wallpaper - whose live show is definitely worthy of anyone's attention. Wallpaper's received some good nods for recent live remix work of Passion Pit and Das Racist - and who knows what he will pull out tonight.
Dude Royal is an L.A. native also worth your time. If you heard the radio friendly "Love High" last year - you might already be on top of this show and be aware that he is not merely a rapper, but also a singer. If you didn't - check it out and check out the show tonight if you can!
Also on the line-up are The Dance Party, whose debut record was released on Hell Ya in late 2010. Despite not fitting all that well with this line up (why have The Dance Party with rising hip-hop artists?), The Dance Party will certainly be giving lessons in their expertise areas - Dancing and Partying.
If you want to have a good time, get your dance on and Party - go to Troubadour tonight!
